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   Brian Boyer (brianboyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 23:20:18 JST Brian Boyer

   I’d be indifferent to the big media companies selling themselves off on the cheap to AI except that it seems like this’ll take the rest of us down with them.

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     Brian Boyer (brianboyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 23:20:17 JST Brian Boyer

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     Let’s say the AI crap worked perfectly. And all the training data produced good results. As a newsroom, what have you gained? A few bucks? At the expense of losing a direct relationship with your audience.

     I mean, *maybe* the smart bet is to take the money and presume the tech shops will *fail* at disintermediation? But I doubt folks are thinking that far ahead. These seem like short-term bets.

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     Brian Boyer (brianboyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 23:20:18 JST Brian Boyer

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     Say what you will about the pivot to video but AFAIK it mainly hurt the suckers (like my newsroom) who took the bait.